Fleshing-machine.



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" STATES 'Pir fllldh l lll 'i'l l flilllfiEo LOUIS T. WEI-SS, OF BRGOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIG'NOB T0 ANTGNIN CHAPAL, OF BEODKLYN, NEW! 2013K.

FLESHING-MACHHEE. I

Specification of Letters Eatent, Patqerilj gtil Sept. 19, 1918..

Application filed July 10, 1917. Serial H 0. 179,608.

,To'all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS T. WEISS, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, county of Kings, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fleshing- Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

This invention has for its object to produce an improved machine for lieshing hides or skins, which shall aiiord greater facility in its use, particularly in respect to the grinding of the knife, the adjustment of the guards with relation'to the knife and general operation of the machine, than machines of like character heretofore used. The invention will be more fully explained hereinafter with reference to "the accompanying drawings, in which it is' illustrated and in which a 1 Figure l is a view if the improved ma chine in side elevation, the floor upon which it stands being indicated in section.

Fig. 2 is a partial view of the same in vertical section on the plane indicated by the line 22 of Fi 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, the scale of this figure being larger than-that of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a partial view in elevation as seen'from the opposite side to that repre 1, but on a. larger scale.

Fig. 4 is a top view, partly in section, on the plane indicated bythe line4-4= of Fig. 3.

In the machine shown in the drawings the working parts are supported upon a suitable standard. a which can be secured to the floor, such standard forming also, a guard for the driving belt 2) which receives its motion from a driving pulley c and countershatt 0 supported below the floor. To the upper part of the standard a is bolted a split tube (l which is provided with a clamping screw (5 and with bearings for a shaft 6 which carries a pinion c and a hand-wheel e The working head of the machine is carried. by a vertical shaft 7 which telescopes up the slack of the driving belt I) or to give ably inounted'in the" frame,

"t slachctor the purpose of stopping the. at the opposite en fieshing knife. The clamping screw 05' tightens the split tube (Z about the shaft ffso' as to retain the head in adjusted position.

The working head comprises a frame,..a tieshing knife with its driving pulley suit and suitable guards. The frameg secureduponthe upper end of the Vertical shaft f, has mounted therein on suitable bearings, a driving pulley h which preferably has formed, therewith an extended wedge it, to which is secured, as by screws 70', the; fleshing knife;"lc. This knife is preterablyiormed as a flat disk, truth a knits-flange 7c, flared outwardly at an angle spinewhat greater than 90 with respect to the body of the disk, so that the necessary sharp edge may be maintained by grinding only upon theout/er surface. In this way the knife can be kept sharp easily by the application of a suitable abradingtool which may be heldin the hand an without requiring the complicated arrangements necessary to be employed when the knife must be ground on the. inner surface and always diificult of proper adjustment.

As the operator stands in the working position. facing the working head, his body is protected from contact with the knife-by;

a shield m, which is preferably concave, as shown, and is hinged to the top of the frame 9, as shown at m, so that the shield can be thrown upward out of the way when it is necessary to get at the 'knife for purposes of sharpening. T he shield is provided with a slotted arm m which cooperates with a clamping belt m by which'the shield is [held in adjusted working position.

On the right hand side of the head, as

the operator stands facing the machine, is

secured adjustably,

overlap the knife, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, and curved to conform generally to the curvature of the knife, as shown in Fig. 3, and provided with parallel arms n? in which are termed the slots 7%, the two arms being united at the ends opposite the guard by a cross-bar a to give rigidity.

On the left hand side of the frame,-as the operator stands "facing the machine, is a flat guard plate (1 which is curved to conform generally to the curvature of the knife and is supported 0 parallel arms a united s by a cross-bar a and means of clamping bolts and slots n a uard it formed to slotted as. at o for cooperation with elamping bolts 0*. By the described arrangements the two guard plates n and 0 can be adjusted readily with respect to the edge of the knife, e ecording to the character of the Work being, done, v

It Will. he understood that in. the 0peration of the machine the hide or skin to be fleshed, as indieeted' by broken lines in Fig. 4c, is drawn across the edge of the fieshing knife as it is exposed between the guards n and 0 and While it isvroteting. at high speed, and the flesh adhering tothe inner side of the skin or hide is thereby quickly removed.

immeee I claim as my invention:

In a fieshing machine, having a supporting frame and a rotary fieshing knifemounted therein to rotate on a horizontal axis a shield mounted upon the frame so that it can be turned up to give access to the knife, and forming normally a rest and shield tor the body of theoperator, the shield being formed with a slotted projecting member and the framebeing provided With a clamping bolt to cooperate therewith.

This specification signed his 6th day of July, A. D1917.

LOUIS T. WEISS. 

